Bill Maher backs George W. Bush on immigration

Liberal comic Bill Maher agrees with former President George W. Bush. Yes, you read that right.

Maher blogged Tuesday that part of the reason Republicans were able to regain the House majority was because of gerrymandering — a great short term solution, but a bad long term one. Maher wrote that Bush understood that but the rest of his party did not and shot down his immigration reform bill.

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“You know who I think would back me up on this? George W. Bush. Remember, he was for immigration reform, but his own party killed him over it,” Maher wrote.

He continued: “If you’re a Republican, isn’t it a serious problem when George W. Bush is a couple steps ahead of the rest of your party? And even though the tide seems to have turned on immigration reform, most Republicans are still from districts whose voters are very uncomfortable doing the salsa.”

The host of HBO’s “Real Time” wrote that gerrymandering is “segregation.”

“Let’s call gerrymandering what it really is: segregation. It carves up district lines so ‘urban’ voters — aka African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics — are bunched up in Democratic districts, while suburban and rural districts are carefully kept just white enough to go Republican,” Maher wrote.